The last known American veteran of World War One has passed away at the age of 110. Frank Buckles died at his farm in West Virginia yesterday (Sunday) Reports said that Buckles who originated from Missouri had recently celebrated his 110th birthday on February 1st. Frank had lied about his age when he joined up to fight as [...]
England’s one day international cricketer Steve Davies has revealed that he is gay, wicket keeper Davies has said that he is proud to be the countries first top cricketer to come out. Davies who is featuring in the current world cup one day international tournament in India is only the third British professional sportsman to [...]
Favourite for the best actor category at this years Oscars ceremony Colin Firth, duly walked away with the industries top accolade last night in Los Angeles. Firth beat Jeff Bridges the star of the True Grit remake, and strangely the result was the exact reverse of last years top two. Firth told the audience that he [...]
Today’s world cup match between England and the tournament favourites India swayed one way then the other before ending in a nail biting tied game. The match took place in Bangalore and the hosts got off to a flying start. Sachin Tendulker put India in a strong position with a score of 120, and when Virender [...]
Fianna Fail the long serving political party of the Irish Republic were unceremoniously dumped out of power in this weekends general election. The Irish voters are showing their anger at the perceived mismanagement of the government in the last couple of years and their handling of the financial crisis. Fianna Fail have been the serving [...]
Serbian tennis ace Novak Djokovic has retained his title at the Dubai Duty Free Championship Crown in Dubai today. Djokovic beat the top seeded Roger Federer in straight sets. This was the serbian players third successive title and the 20th of his career, he said afterwards “Any time I win against Roger Federer it’s a [...]
British Defence Secretary Liam Fox has announced the rescue of at least 150 stranded oil workers from the remote desert regions of Libya today. Two Royal Air Force Hercules Transport Aircraft had landed unannounced at the desert camps using existing runways and evacuated the workers. The two planes landed at Nafoora in eastern Libya, the [...]
The sad death of ex-soccer star Dean Richards was announced today, he had been fighting a long illness and was only 36 years old. Richards who was born in Bradford in the north of England, kicked off his career with Bradford City his home town club in 1992, he cut his teeth at the club [...]
Many investors were left frustrated this morning as the newly installed computer system broke down after just a couple of minutes trading. The glitch embarrassingly occurred as the European equity markets were posting their best gains for five months. The system was down for four hours, this followed the exchanges earlier problems this week when [...]
The last flight of the space shuttle Discovery got under way last night after a series of glitches were overcome, it took off in perfect weather conditions from The Kennedy Space Centre in Florida. On board was Robonaut 2, the artificial humanoid which has been patiently waiting packed away on board the shuttle since last [...]
